Hi, I have tested on several servers with 2 or 3 GB + 1 of swap. Yesterday I was monitoring with htop and, when scanning a single host, free RAM would go from 1.5Gb to 20 MB depending on the vulnerability scanned.
2013/12/11 Russell Jones <[email protected]> > We have found it takes roughly 100MB of memory per host at a time when > doing nmap scans + full & deep ultimate vulnerability tests. > > What are the server specs you are running this on? > > > On 12/9/2013 9:03 AM, William Scott Lockwood III wrote: > >> On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Paula Gonzalez Muñoz <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> I have found that the synchronization does not cause any problem... and >>> scanning target by target is not really a solution for us since we have >>> to >>> perform scans out of office hours on over 30 servers (and increasing). >>> >>> Regards, >>> Paula >>> >> Target by target isn't the issue. Define your range (30 servers is >> tiny compared to what I'm scanning) but limit the number of concurrent >> hosts and concurrent NVT's until you find a balance that works for >> you. Currently, I limit mine to 5 hosts with 4 concurrent NVT's and >> have no problems running scans from a VM. >> _______________________________________________ >> Openvas-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wald.intevation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ >> openvas-discuss >> > > _______________________________________________ > Openvas-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wald.intevation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openvas-discuss > -- Paula González Muñoz
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